2019Annual Report
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2019ANNUAL REPORT European Choral Association - Europa Cantat (ECA-EC) Who we are ......................................................................................................... 4 Welcome words .................................................................................................. 6 Our Network ............................................................................ 8 History ............................................................................................................... 10 Values .................................................................................................................. 12 Vision ................................................................................................................. 13 Members ............................................................................................................. 14 People ................................................................................................................. 19 Networking with others ................................................................................... 23 “ Multiannual projects ............................................................. 28 Upgrade – Connect – Reach out ................................................................... 30 One Voice for Sing Me In .......................................................................................................... 34 Sing Outside The Box ...................................................................................... 35 Collective Singing! STAMP – Shared Training Activities for Music Professionals ................... 36 New cooperation projects ............................................................................. 37 “ EP:IC ................................................................................................................... 37 SHIFT – Shared Initiatives for Training ........................................................ 38 Training Leading Voices .................................................................................. 39 Activities 2019 ....................................................................... 40 Activities of ECA-EC ....................................................................................... 50 5th edition of Youth Choirs in Movement .................................................. 52 9th intern. Competition for Young Conductors ........................................... 53 EuroChoir ........................................................................................................... 54 World Youth Choir ........................................................................................... 55 Membership Weekend ..................................................................................... 56 Grants ................................................................................................................. 58 Activities in partnership with ECA-EC .......................................................... 60 Activities promoted by ECA-EC ................................................................................62 Advocacy work in 2019 .............................................................................................63 What will happen in 2020 and beyond ............................................................... 64 Imprint .............................................................................................................................67 2 European Choral Association - Europa Cantat | Annual Report 2019 European Choral Association - Europa Cantat | Annual Report 2019 3 SVALBARD (NORWAY) ICELAND SWEDEN FINLAND FAROE ISLANDS NORWAY RUSSIA ESTONIA LATVIA DENMARK LITHUANIA BELARUS IRELAND UNITED POLAND KINGDOM NETHERLANDS GERMANY BELGIUM CZECH UKRAINE LUXEMBOURG REPUBLIC SLOVAKIA MOLDOVA LIECHTENSTEIN AUSTRIA HUNGARY FRANCE SWITZERLAND SLOVENIA CROATIA ROMANIA BOSNIA AND SERBIA HERZEGOVINA BULGARIA ITALY MONTENEGRO GEORGIA MACEDONIA ALBANIA ARMENIA AZERBAIJANARZERBAIJAN AZORES SPAIN (PORTUGAL) PORTUGAL GREECE TURKEY MALTA SYRIA CYPRUS LEBANON MADEIRA ISLANDS (PORTUGAL) TUNISIA MOROCCO ISRAEL JORDAN CANARY ISLANDS TO THE EUROPEAN CHORAL ASSOCIATION – EUROPA CANTAT (SPAIN) ALGERIA LIBYA EGYPT welcome. We are We connect people through CONDUCTORS | VOCAL LEADERS ORGANISATIONS EVENT EDUCATIONAL SINGING ACTIVITIES SINGERS ORGANISERS FESTIVALS · TRAININGS · PROJECTS COMPOSERS | CREATORS CHOIRS MEETINGS · COMPETITIONS MANAGERS TEACHERS | EDUCATORS AWARDS · CONFERENCES cooperating across borders in the field of collective singing since 1963. all over continental Europe. 62 187 202 MEMBER CHOIRS INDIVIDUALS Why? ORGANISATIONS · We love collective singing, we want to share it! · We promote peace and solidarity Through our membership, we directly represent 2,5 million people, amateurs and · We want to exchange and learn from each other professionals and reach out to more than 37 million in continental Europe active in the field of collective singing. Our members are actively involved through: Did you know? · Membership Days · Working groups Consultations Online voting · · 4,5% of the European population are actively involved in collective singing www.EuropeanChoralAssociation.org www.singingeurope.org 4 European Choral Association - Europa Cantat | Annual Report 2019 European Choral Association - Europa Cantat | Annual Report 2019 5 Dear readers, members and friends of the European Choral Association – Europa Cantat, I'm glad to write some welcoming words from the pages of our Annual Report. It is an Welcome to this third edition of our Annual Report with which we are looking back at the important and valuable document, because it tells us who we are and what we do, year 2019 to share with you what happened during that year, both within and outside the representing also for ourselves a tool of awareness of all the activities, musical, creative, network project “Upgrade – Connect- Reach Out: Raising Awareness for Collective Singing strategic, relational, that the European Choral Association – Europa Cantat develops over the in Europe.” course of a year. The Annual Report not only gives a lot of information about what has been We will take you back to special moments such as the sessions of the EuroChoir and the concluded, but also stimulates new ideas and a look at what is to come. The year after the World Youth Choir (which celebrated its 30th anniversary), which both ended with concerts EUROPA CANTAT festival is for ECA-EC the first year of work of the new Board (this time in the frame of the impressive Choralies Festival and our Membership Weekend in Ljubljana very renewed) that has focused on its visions of the future in a three-day Strategic Retreat in which gave us a taste of what we can look forward to for the festival in 2021. If you were Girona. It is the year in which most of the contents of the next EUROA CANTAT Junior (2020 there you will think back with pleasure, if you were not you will hopefully feel encouraged in Vilnius) and the next EUROPA CANTAT Festival (2021 Ljubljana) are developed. Moreover to join next time. For us, 2019 will be remembered as the year in which we welcomed two in 2019 the new Leading Voices event (taking place in Utrecht in 2022) officially started its new team members, Estera Mihaila as Communication and Marketing Manager (who, among path. In short, it was a year of sowing, whose fruits we will reap in the years to come. So I others, created this wonderful Annual Report) and Sophie Dowden as Project and Fundraising take this opportunity to thank the Board, the Youth Committee, the steering committees and Manager (who immediately launched into preparing a major project application). We were sad music commissions, the Music Consultants and Advisors, for their work and the passion that to see Giulia Lodi and Côme Ferrand-Cooper go, and we would like to thank them for all they always animates it. On page 11 you will find the picture of someone who sowed seeds in the did for our association over the years – it was great to meet both of them again in Ljubljana choral field all his life. Michaël Scheck – the last President of AGEC and one of the motors last November. When your association is over 50 years old, unfortunately you regularly lose behind the merger with Europa Cantat – passed away in 2019, but what he planted is still important personalities from your past. In 2019 Michaël Scheck, last President of AGEC and blooming. Thank you, Michaël. one of the motors of the merger with Europa Cantat, passed away. We honoured him with a 2019 was also a year of successful activities, recounted in these pages. I would like to thank minute of silence at our General Assembly in Ljubljana. all the members and partners who organised them and created their contents, and all the Next to the network project mentioned above, we started two new projects in 2019 – the participants who are the recipients and at the same time the nourishment of our work. EPIC project dealing with auditioned youth music ensembles and SHIFT which aims at helping Finally, I would like to thank our Secretary General and all the staff in our office, a physically cultural organisations train their teams and boards on how to integrate some of the important rather small place, a concentration of competence and passion that flows from Bonn to the UN Sustainable Development Goals into the work and the activities of the association. choral world. Enjoy revisiting what happened in 2019 and taking a glimpse at what lies